YR ROLLING MADDEN VIDEOS GAEM THRED

i'm a mess on defense, pats linebackers are too slow against any sort of stretch/sweep. i've had to press my dbacks to the line leaving me vulnerable to the bomb.

gameplay doesn't seem that much different than last year. i can't believe i've been buying these stupid games for 14 years now.

omg, i loved this game. it traveled everywhere with me when i was 8. i got busted for taking it to church with me one sunday.

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since i don't have a brother i will be holed up in the ukrainian village doing exactly the same thing this weekend.

Cleveland 20
NO 13

It jives with my completely objective analysis.

no

Please to put Knute Rockne or Jeremy Shocker on the cover of '08.

I remain faithfully and humbly yrs,

a look inside the ratings.

lol, some of it is so fuckin random. also the increasing proliferation of 100s is bs. my fave part though is that someone watched Reggie Bush last season and thought "shit, we need to give that dude 100 on agility!" wtf did he do last year above the previous season that made someone decided he needed 100 in any category.

needless to say, i will be queuing with the rest of the plebs on release day. i love this shit sooo much. screens for next-gen version look sweet.

screens for next-gen version look sweet.

i'm ashamed to say that i have given serious thought on multiple occasions to blowing my economic stimulus check on a new video game console just because of madden.

get a ps3 boy and i will fuck you up.

hard to believe i'm denying a sales pitch such as that...

i am pretty good.

I haven't played a new Madden game since 2005. Do they still suck?

I love Madden so much.

i've bought one every year since the early 90s. i no longer take the day off of work to play the shit out of it though.

after reading the updates from pats camp i'm kinda jonesing for the new madden?

i just want to know if they're gonna reinsert favre and if they'll retouch the cover art so he's wearing his new team's uni

there was a piece in sporting news where EA played through seasons in the 09 edition and the Vikings made the playoffs with Favre and not without.... but PACKERS do much better without.

Any year the Chargers are good is a year I have to buy Madden.

hey, this is available for purchase today, no?

if so i think i'm blowing off movies in the park in favor of a six pack and some madden.

I saw on ESPN last night that, while he's still in his Pack uni on the cover, they've already got him in a Jets uni in the game itself.

they've supposedly already released an update including Favre at NYJ. i'll check in approx. 2 hours when i get home and start playing.

you can dl new cover art from ea.

so did anyone buy this?

Holding off until I reach some Xbox equilibrium; the new system and six games makes me feel like I need to take a month off from work before I can think about really engaging with anything.

i need to buy a new tv before i get a new system. went out at lunch and bought it for ps 2 because i need to stay in for the rest of the month and start socking away some $$$.

i am waiting for the 'My Skill' levels to adapt to me being fucking useless at rushing. after a bunch of 2-yard attempts from typical rushing formations I tried to go for a more Pats-authentic rush from spread, and though just like last year the playbook contains running plays from a spread formation they are absolutely terrible in practice.

2nd game of the season was a nail-biter against the Jets that went into overtime, that i won thanks to a lucky coin toss and a sweet pass over the middle to Welker who broke away from the covering safety and took it in for 6. total rushing yards were a mighty 15 off 10 attempts. fortunately my short pass game is pretty much unstoppable.

yeah, the only way my rushing #'s look anything like real life is if i bust off a 60 yard run at some point in the game. tackling #s and rushing #s never match up w/real life or with simulated games. i only play 6 minute quarters, it's fucking impossible for me to have 30 carries a game.

so did anyone buy this?

-- chicago kevin, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 16:13 (6 hours ago) Link

(raises hand)

So far, it sucks!

it sucks or you suck at it?

so far my only real complaint is that it's sometimes difficult to select the exact player i want to control on defense. i like to control different players depending on the type of play and i've been caught out a few times.

So far, it sucks!

-- Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:48 PM (Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:48 PM) Bookmark Link

otm. i played one game and there are no changes to the pat's playbook. there's still only one formation (except shotgun) where the pats can run the ball and have 3 wide receivers. too soon for me to be hoping for next year.

i guess this must be a system-specific thing, but i'm on PS3 and the Pats' playbook is significantly different from last year. all of the go-to passes i liked to have on audible have disappeared :(

DAMMIT!!!!

they did revamp the audibles but i haven't figured it out yet.

This game is so fucking complicated I don't even know where to start.

WAHT??!?!??!

i've played half a regular season so far with P'burgh (feels like cheating using the pats, silly really but whatcha gonna do?). i'm at 6-2, including an infuriating loss to the iggles where i really lost the plot in the last quarter.

i'm using the 'my skill' settings and at this point my pass and rush defense meters are at full, my pass offense is nearly full, and my rush offense is about a third of the way along. the rush meter will drop just enough for me not to be terrible and i'll have one 100-yard game and the meter will shoot up again, and then it's 2-yard gain city all over again. it doesn't help that Willie Parker falls over if a defensive player breathes on him.

i'm coming up on week 17 as the pats and i don't know how long i'll play as them as i'm 14-1 heading into the last reg season game. true to form my defense isn't overpowering but inside the red zone teams just don't score td's against me. they march down the fucking field 4 out of every 5 possessions though. i don't have much of a pass rush, brady isn't having an overwhelming year (moss is though), and maroney has 1,110 yards heading into the last game which is good for like 10th place in the afc (i think there are 3 players with over 2,000 rush yards already).

I've not played Madden since it first came out a zillion years ago for Super Nintendo, but last night I rented it for the Wii and sat around working my way through it blindly. Before I knew it, five hours had passed and it was almost 3 in the morning. Addictive is an understatment.

In the old days I'd have stretches where I was JUST trying to put the finishing touches on my offseason, getting my team ready for the preseason, before quitting and going to sleep. And then I'd look out the window and realize that it was 6am and I had to be at work in 3 hours. Ugh.

I think I've played Madden '09 maybe three times total since I posted that upthread.

I wish I had rented Madden 09 instead of buying it.

I'm getting better at it, but still stumbling through. Not sure if I'll buy it or not, but if I do it will be a used/rental copy.

Full blown addiction now. I'm gonna have to buy this shit. When does Madden '10 come out?

August 14, I guess.

Just took a peep at the Wii version, and they've made everything look cartoonish!! Bleh. Just because the only game system I own is a Wii doesn't mean I want to coddled like a 10 year old girl.

U GUIZE MADDEN 10 WILL BE ON iPHONE

Thinking about buying 2010, cause it's depressing playing as Philly with Dawkins still on the team. :'(

But so expensive for a game with an expiration date!

ncaa football games > madden

tbh

I don't have an NCAA team tho -- so I never really get excited about playing it. (Tho I do play it occasionally. My friend is a Florida State fan and owns the game.)

Seriously, updated rosters aside, what's in Madden 2010 that's not in, say, Madden 2004?

WELL SNRUB

for one you can't play madden 04 on a ps3 or xbox 360

Seriously, updated rosters aside, what's in Madden 2010 that's not in, say, Madden 2004?

Much better graphics, better overall presentation, online multiplayer.

Otherwise it's exactly the same.

I would get 2008 used instead of getting 2010.

i took back my ps3 copy of 10. it is pretty horrible. the gameplay is basically identical to the last two versions except where they have broken it, e.g. the ball constantly popping into the air when the QB gets hit and d-linemen intercepting it without every seeing it, and running backs getting clobbered by 5 guys at once and still pulling through. i appreciate the effort to vary what happens on the field, but this kind of thing should happy maybe once a season, not every other drive. the presentation is great except it completely gets in the way of the game. after the first couple times the halftime show gets real tired, and there's no way to turn it off.

Anyone getting '11 for PS3?

I'm planning on getting it for the 360.

Renting this one.

just preordered mine. best thing madden did was start including roster updates throughout the season.

Seriously, fuck this whole series.

my room mate has a 360, i got rid of my playstation last year and am thinking about giving this a shot. i probably won't though. but maybe.

got it for ps3

Just got this today, 360. If anyone wants to play, hit me up.

What's your username?

Shinefield

polyphonique

So I'm loving the new RB maneuvering.

just got for the PS3

rg!n35, only w/ the ! the other way, yknow.

Woo. Won my first online game. Iggles-Jets, very close throughout, came back to tie it up within the last two minutes, then they stalled in a drive on their 30 yard line, went for it on 4th, failed, and I kicked the FG to win. Epic.

Added u polyphonic.

I feel like defense is much harder to do well on this because so many moves are mapped on the right analog stick.

is there a savage more disgusting than someone who always chooses saints or colts every online match?

jimmy, i will play you online if I get a goddam EA handle, i hate them so much

this is good eh? while it would be nice if EA could get round to making a new engine for this one day, with player collision/blocking that actually works etc, they seem to have stripped out all of the annoying bollocks from 10 and added some stuff that actually works. i no longer hate myself for buying it.

i guess my one complaint so far is that they seem to have nerfed kickoff returns, cos i can't get the fucking ball out of my 20. punt returning has potential now tho, whereas it used to feel like it was just an opportunity for an unfortunate fumble.

It's definitely better than last year. There are still lots of things about it that bug me though.

Load times drive me a bit crazy

i played, like, 3 games of football before giving myself oer to baseball completely

just got some great abusive messages from some dick who i carved up with "the same two gay plays". i'm queer, new england is for queers, and my plays are trash.

fuck these assholes who pick the titans and then run every single play (receiving every kick, every punt, coming out of every snap) with Chris Johnson. Yes, congratz, you found the most highly rated RB in the game.

those dudes do the same outside run and screen play the whole game.

the more i played online, the more i encountered dudes like this who try to game the game, and it ended up just putting me off completely.

I don't even get why playing like this thrills them. Do they realize that CJ's game-breaking abilities are due to Madden's mechanics of rating various players and teams higher than others? Or do they think that they are just amazing at playing as Chris Johnson (just like every other person who does it). Comparable: Every week there's this trend where like 80% more players are playing as a totally different team than everyone played as last week. What accounts for it? Madden updated on Thursday and now the new team is the highest rated.

When did the Falcons become America's team?

since they've been able to continually suit up
unlike every other team in the league this year

I know, I'm being sarcastic. They're now America's team because they have a high team rating so every free agent madden player has fallen in love.

yah i got it

Well, it took me 182 games but I'm finally .500 doing Madden head to head online. 91/91 record.

Do you like this iteration of the game? I can't stand it.

I love it, actually.

Defense + RB are way better.

I agree on RB but I can't play defense on it at all. How do you approach D?

Either I play the line until the pass (at which case I switch to the closest coverage and try to get a pick) or I play the FS.

That's basically what I do, but I rarely generate any consistent pass rush.

it's a timing thing with the pass rush. I'm actually pretty good at getting pressure, but the problem is if you defer playcalling to coaches, they blitz too much, and if you play an experienced QB, he gets the ball out quick. That's why sometimes I take back playcalling in difficult spells during a game.

think I racked up 8 or 9 sacks in one of the games....

defending the run, though, I do struggle at that...

What difficulty do you guys play on when you play the computer.

this is the best version for a few years imo. they stripped out most of the crap they had been cluttering it with and finally made rushing ok instead of awful, which was a big deal. online seems to play better this year too. still lots of problems obv, but feel like for the first time they tried to tackle some of them instead of just bolting some gaudy garbage onto the same old shit.

All Pro I think (whichever one is the second most difficult). I like to play on All Madden normally but since it's been so many years since I last played Madden (2007 for the XBox) I'm having to get used to it again.

figure I need to get a little less turnover prone before I can turn it up this time.

yea honestly I've not been a fan of Madden for years as some of the decisions were o_O (like the year they introduced the passing 'cone' to look off receivers), but I love this version. It actually has the most realistic feel of any Madden I've ever played.

There's still some weirdness here and there in the playcalling but hey it's a Madden game.

although is it just me, or can you not challenge Touchdowns? Like there've been at least two touchdowns that I thought were questionable (ie, receiver out of bounds), and I've gone to challenge and the option has not been there like it normally is....

(and there were more than 2 minutes in the quarter at the time)

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2011/03/madden-12-cover-vote-530w.jpg

madden 12 coverstar bracket
lol @ squawks
i do not know who carlos dunlap is. apologies carlos.

Jordan Gross!

The 12th Man

wow, tebow huh?

Woah, Peyton Hillis beat Aaron Rodgers!

Final is now between Hillis and Vick.

gotta bet it's gonna be vick, woulda guessed that from the start honestly

Hillis won by quite a margin, btw.

huh. i am surprised.

anyone tried the demo? i am unsure. it seems like they have made some real nice improvements to player movements and interaction, especially blocking, but it is very hard to tell because EA have fixed the difficulty on pre-school level, i assume not to scare away morons, and so every time i hand the ball off i just walk through the defense. on a similar note, i can't tell if the fact that clay matthews got a sack every time cutler dropped back was because of the difficulty level or because they have fucked something up. i think it is a step forward, but there is a very real possibility that whatever seems to have been fixed is just broken in a different way. the demo is basically pretty unhelpful but i guess i was always going to buy this shit anyway.

I guess Madden is going to give the Iggles an insanely high rating and every cheeser on the internet is suddenly going to become a Philadelphia fan.

last year they changed the ratings a lot during the year. i was mostly using atlanta because you can't use the pats without an avalanche of abuse, and suddenly part way thru the season every fucking idiot online was atlanta, and it turned out it was because the most recent roster update had them as the best rated team.

mord, you are xbox, right?

yeah

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swear to god i had complained extensively here about how balls madden 12 turned out to be. summary: it was very very balls.

glad i skipped this year

when does EA's contract finally run out with the NFL?
There NEEDS to be some competition as this series is kinda dead now

aargh, this demo is shit. i am so unhappy :(

when do these fuckers lose the exclusive license?

http://www.nohighscores.com/2012/08/24/madden-13-early-hours-impressions/

that's interesting. i kinda want more impressions from ppl to calibrate my own against. i have the doubt that, what if it is just different to what i'm used to and i'm just being a kneejerk asshole about it, but trying it again i just hate how fast and frictionless it all feels. with so much physicality in football the game has no sense of mass to the moving parts. rushing was horrible, when they had begun to make some progress with that with the old engine, and passing was no great shakes. the play selection mechanics seem to be more cumbersome somehow, too many button presses.

when was the last time zone coverage worked at all in a madden game? 2004?

I scored an 80-yard rushing touchdown with Tebow and he did not do the Tebow, what is this shit.

^one for the box

that is fairly realistic tho. numerous times this year i have seen him come on the field for one down on a read option and fall forward for 3 yards, and he hasn't tebowed once!

i am playing the new demo. it seems okay? need to play around more but running game seems a little off, i'm either tackled by 3 dudes in the backfield or i've got 5 yards before i see anyone, and no in between. i am at least not horrified this time, so far.

did anyone else do the madden 25 amazon nfl red zone stream ipad to panasonic and then through several other corporate entities you can watch football?! tres psyched

More information pls

yeah i did that. i was half considering buying it this year (last one i bought had daunte culpepper on it iirc) and then i knew i'd be working alot sundays this fall/winter so that sealed the deal.

http://kotaku.com/the-cheapest-way-to-watch-the-nfl-this-year-1041559197
may have ended today tho. basically you pay 100 for the game and it gets you directv nfl sunday ticket

Oh dang that is cool

welp i bought this for the ps3. Doing the drills. I like the read option stuff.

man I remember when people used to call in sick to work to play madden. has call of duty taken that title away?

Video game Jim Nantz just said "butt fumble"

EYEROLL

I like a lot of things about this version! I suck at it though, as usual. I miss the old days when the game was easy.

http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2013/9/5/4691010/breaking-madden-clarence-beeftank-jaguars

BEEFTANK, meanwhile, set an NFL record with 346 rushing yards in a single game, shattering the previous mark of 296. He rushed 42 times, thereby averaging 8.2 yards per carry. I could only call designed runs so many times before the Chiefs' defense started to get wise, so I had to change it up with a lot of passing plays that were repurposed as improvised runs. Roll-out passing plays were particularly effective, not because they fooled anyone, but because they allowed BEEFTANK to swing to the outside right from the start of the play.